DAVID JONES was jailed in 2004 after admitting causing the death of an eight-year-old boy but days after his release two men carried out a vigilante knife attack on him.

TWO thugs were yesterday jailed for a total of five years for a vigilante knife attack on a drink-driver who killed a young boy.

Andrew Henderson, 44, and Corby Clark, 24, attacked David Jones days after he was released from serving an eight-year jail sentence.

The 30-year-old was jailed in 2004 after admitting he caused the death of an eight-year-old boy.

Jones had been drinking fortified wine Mad Dog 20/20 before getting behind the wheel of the car in October 2003 and crashing into a wall on a country road near Aberdeen.

He left Stephan Henderson – the son of Andrew Henderson’s ex-partner – dying on the ground after he pulled him from the wreckage and fled the scene.

Stephan Henderson died aged eight

Two other boys, aged 11 and 12, were also injured in the horror crash.

At Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday, Clark and Henderson admitted that they attacked Jones less than three weeks after he was released from prison on August 3.

Fiscal depute Anne MacDonald said: “The complainer Mr Jones was 30 at the time of this incident.

“He had shortly before this incident been released from prison.

“That incarceration in prison was with regard to a road traffic incident involving a child.

“The sentence was eight years in prison for causing the death by dangerous driving of that child.

“This is necessary background to explain something of the reason why this incident occurred on the 23rd of August.

“The child was the son of Henderson’s partner at that time.

“When the death occurred, Henderson, not surprisingly, was upset but unfortunately did not seem to be satisfied by the term of imprisonment imposed by the state and decided to take the law into his own hands, which he thought was some sort of revenge.”

The court heard that Jones was released from prison on August 3 and had been out drinking with friends when he was attacked.

Ms MacDonald said: “He felt a few blows, then something across the back of his head, then ended up on the ground.

“He recognised Henderson straight away and, when he was on the ground, he felt he was being assaulted.

Vigilante Andrew Henderson

“The complainer was on the ground and suffered the attentions of Henderson with the knife.”

The court heard that Jones was attacked with a Stanley knife and suffered serious cuts to his face and ear.

He was taken to hospital where he underwent surgery on his face but will still be left with a “significant” permanent scar.

Yesterday, Henderson pleaded guilty to striking Jones on the head with a knife to his injury and disfigurement. And Clark admitted injuring Jones by kicking him repeatedly on the body.

Defence solicitor John Hardie said the stanley knife had belonged to Jones and was taken off him during the attack in the city centre.

He said that his client Henderson had spotted Jones in the Castlegate area of Aberdeen and had wrestled him to the ground.

Mr Hardie said there was significant history between the two men, who had known each other before Jones was jailed.

The court heard that Jones had been a family friend of Henderson’s then partner, who he split up with after her son’s death.

Corby Clark, 24, leaving Aberdeen Sheriff Court

Sheriff Edward Savage described the case as an “extremely serious offence” and said he was satisfied that a custodial sentence was inevitable.

He jailed Henderson for 36 months and sentenced Clark to 27 months in prison.